Retrospective: Best of Buffalo Springfield by Buffalo Springfield (CD, Jan-1989, Atco USA)

My early appreciation of music was formed by groups like The Buffalo Springfield. There music spawned many other groups such as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Loggins & Messina, Poco, Neil Young and Crazy Horse and the Eagles. They influenced many other artists such as Kenny Loggins and Jackson Browne. Great harmonies and lyrics!

Retrospective is a great collection of songs from the short lived band Buffalo Springfield. Personally, I don't think these songs equal the later work of the individual artists but they do hint of the greatness that was to come from the likes of Neil Young and Steve Stills. If you appreciate Rock history and enjoy watching bands and artists evolve this is a must own CD. 4 Stars.

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This is a great CD, the music is great and the message in For What its Worth is just as powerful as back in the 1060's
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There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth

This is a great compilation, as good as anything the Beatles ever did. Deeper than The Byrds, more introspective than The Rolling Stones, as colorful and creative as Sgt. Pepper. Several emotional tracks, some romatic like Kind Woman and some militant like Broken Arrow. Confirms that 1967 was the pinnacle of creatvity and genius of the 1960s in music.

Stills actually peaks here while Neil Young has more peaks and valleys during the next decade. The work opens with a classic and Richie Furay steal the album with the 4th slot. Lots of alternating between Stills and Young keep it strong through the finish.

For me, this was a previously undiscovered classic. I was a Neil Young fan with Harvest Moon, but appreciated the 1970s more with Jackson Browne. Buffalo Springfield is the grandfather of country/southern rock including Browne, The Eagles, Skynyrd, Allmans. Much easier to listen to that Sweetheart of the Rodeo by The Byrds.

Glad I got it on CD because if it was vinyl it would be worn out already.

never again will i order from this company. never recieved second cd, first cd didnt work they would not replace or return damaged cd.

classic CD, great music from the '60's. Not much more to say about it, give me a break, what mor e can one say about a CD.

Buffalo Springfield was one of the first short lived super groups. Every song they recorded was a good one and this CD covers them all!